Why Didn’t God Save Those Babies?

While watching the classic movie “The Ten Commandments” starring Charleton Heston as Moses and Yul Brynner as Pharoah, my son asked me a question. (He does that from time to time.) He said, “Dad, why didn’t God save those babies (when Pharoah ordered them killed)?”

And the movie does depict the story pretty brutally and in the one scene with an Egyptian soldier holding a bloody sword and a mother in grief leaning against a wall in shocked silence.

Michael continued, “And didn’t that hurt?”

As the real story goes in the Bible the king of Egypt did call for the murdering of Israelite male babies by drowning…

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you are to cast into the Nile, and every daughter you are to keep alive.” (Exodus 1:22)

And so my answer to: Why didn’t God save those babies? (How might you have answered the question?)

I said, “Now wait a minute, Michael. How do you know God didn’t save them?”

I continued, “Yes, it hurt those babies. But I think God took them to Heaven and that’s how God saved those babies, Michael.”

(Moses with the Ten Commandments by Rembrandt picture file above is in the public domain: click here. PD-US)

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